Lucas Till’s Havok Returning For ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’?

The core casts of the original X-Men trilogy along with Matthew Vaughn’s ’60s era prequel are coming together on screen next summer for an epic reunion for what can easily be described as the most ambitious comic book movie ever greenlit by Twentieth Century Fox. Writer and director Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Pastalso aims to introduce a plethora of new characters from the comics, but not everyone is returning (that we know of).

While X-Men: First Class characters Emma Frost (January Jones), Azazel (Jason Flemyng) and Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones) are seemingly not being brought back for the sequel, a photo from the Montreal shooting location of X-Men: Days of Future Past reveals that one of the supporting hero mutants unconfirmed to return, may actually be returning after all.

A Montreal resident snapped a photo with Lucas Till (and Bryan Singer to confirm the date and location) while traveling near the shoot for Days of Future Past, unofficially confirming that Alex Summers aka Havok, is returning in some capacity. In the comics, Alex is the brother of Scott “Cyclops” Summers but due to the timeline of X-Men: First Class, it’s more likely that in the cinematic universe, Scott is Alex’s son.

On the official side of news, Singer tweeted out a few more new photos this week from behind-the-scenes. Months ago, when the director confirmed his intention to shoot Days of Future Past in 3D he also confirmed that its story – set 11 years after First Class – would include President Richard Nixon and joked that he’d have a tough time casting the part. One of the set photos features Nixon and company in an important Oval Office meeting, one features Michael Fassbender’s younger Magneto hovering and the last spotlights a Vietnam rally.

While the story of the film adaptation of the Days of Future Past comics remains a mystery, we do know that some political event of the past is the trigger that launches a post-apocalyptic future where giant Sentinel robots scourer Earth for mutants. The photos of Nixon and the rally from the ’70s era reveal as much.

In the comics, this time-altering event was the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly, but that character was used as part of the central plot of Bryan Singer’s first X-Men film in 2000.